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单词 off and on
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Example sentences from the Web for off and on

  • We filmed it off-and-on over the course of a few months earlier this year.

    Patton Oswalt Sounds Off On Stand-Up’s Critics and Why Comedians Should Win Oscars|Marlow Stern|December 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
  • If he'd a reg'lar task to do, He never took no rest; Or if 'twas off-and-on—the same— He done his level best.

    Sketches New and Old, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • Miss Charlotte's temper is past all the last few weeks, she is that off-and-on and changeable like and spirity.

    The Squire of Sandal-Side|Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  • There was a subject to which I had given some years of off-and-on study.

    The Young Man and the World|Albert J. Beveridge

off and on

SEE SYNONYMS FOR off and on ON THESAURUS.COM

Also, on and off.

1

Intermittently, from time to time. For example, I read his column off and on, or We've been working on the garden all summer, on and off. [Early 1500s]

2

Also, off again, on again; on again, off again. Uncertain, vacillating, as in Theirs is an off again, on again relationship, or The peace talks are on again, off again. Some believe this term originally referred to minor railroad accidents, where a train went off track and then on again. [Mid-1800s]

Words nearby off and on

Offa, off again, on again, off-air, offal, Offaly, off and on, off and running, off balance, off-balance sheet reserve, off-base, offbeat
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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